Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★, sentence 11
"Buy one, get the second half price" on two £6 books means £6 plus £3, which is £9.
Who acts: you · What happens: buy, get, mean · To what, where: one, second half price, two £ books
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★» of the money course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Buy | punct |
| 2 | Buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Buy | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Buy | parataxis |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 price | det |
| 7 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 price | amod |
| 8 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 9 price | compound |
| 9 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Buy | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 books | case |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 books | nummod |
| 13 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 15 books | compound |
| 14 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 £ | nummod |
| 15 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 means | obl |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Buy | advcl |
| 17 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 16 means | obj |
| 18 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 £ | nummod |
| 19 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 20 £ | cc |
| 20 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 17 £ | conj |
| 21 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 £ | nummod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 £ | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 £ | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 £ | cop |
| 25 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 20 £ | acl:relcl |
| 26 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 £ | nummod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Buy | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy in a quote | imperative | you not said here | one | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | infinitive | the second half price | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer price=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | you not said here | two £ books | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:money:041-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till.lesson:11.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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